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This cutting-edge, multi-disciplinary analysis looks ahead to the direction which urban studies is likely to take during the twenty-first century.

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• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• List of Contributors
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Understanding the City (University of Surrey Roehampton, UK) and (University of Buffalo, USA)
• Part 1 A Middle Ground? Difference, Social Justice and the City
• 2 Rescripting Cities with Difference: (University of Melbourne, Australia), (University of Melbourne, Australia) and (University of Durham, UK)
• 3 The Public City: (University of East London, UK)
• 4 Social Justice and the South African City: (University of London, UK)
• 5 Changing Views on Urban Violence: (The Sorbonne, France)
• Part 2 The Global and Local, the Information Age and American Metropolitan Development
• 6 Power in Place: Retheorizing the Local and the Global: (University of California at Davis and University of California at Berekeley, USA)
• 7 From Neo-Marxism to the Third Way: Manuel Castells and the "Information Age": (Columbia University, USA)
• 8 Urban Analysis as Merchandising: the "LA School" and the Understanding of Metropolitan Development: (University of Buffalo, USA)
• Part 3 Urban Research in Particular Regions of the Globe
• 9 State Socialism, Post-Socialism and Their Urban Patterns: Theorizing the Central and Eastern European Experience: (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)
• 10 The China Difference: City Studies Under Socialism: (University of California at Irvine) and (University of Washington, USA)
• 11 High Speed Growth and Urban Development in East and Southeast Asia: (Ritusmeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan and University of Kent, UK)
• Part 4 Urban Processes and City Contexts: India and the Middle East
• 12 Cities of the Past and Cities of the Future: Theorizing the Indian Metropolis of Bangalore: (Ohio State University, USA)
• 13 The Syntax of Jerusalem: Urban Morphology, Culture and Power: (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• 14 Muslim Civil Society in Urban Public Spaces: Globalization, Discursive Shifts and Social Movements: (University of California at Santa Cruz) and (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
• Part 5 Urban Processes and City Contexts: The USA
• 15 The Bullriders of Silicon Alley: New Media Circuits of Innovation, Speculation and Urban Development: (St. John's University, USA)
• 16 Fear and Lusting in Las Vegas and New York: Sex, Political Economy and Public Space: (City University of New York, USA)
• 17 Efficacy or Legitimacy of Community Power? A Reassessment of Corporate Elites in Urban Studies: (Vassar College, USA)
• 18 Dream Factory Redux: Mass Culture, Symbolic Sites and Redevelopment in Hollywood: (Occidental College, Los Angeles, USA)
• Index

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

John Eade is Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. He undertook research in Calcutta before completing his doctorate on Bangladeshi community politics in London's East End. He directed the Wandsworth local/global study and his previous publications include The Politics of Community (1989), Living the Global City (1997), and Placing London (2000). He is currently directing a research project on Methodists in the global city and collaborating on an ESRC-funded program on links between Britain and Bangladesh.

Christopher Mele is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of Selling the Lower East Side: Culture, Real Estate, and Resistance in New York City (2000). His current research is a study of the influence of historical patterns of race and class upon contemporary urban growth and development along the southeastern coast of the United States.